Core competencies

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The White House announced today that President Trump would bring some of the discipline of the corporate planning process to the White House.

The bringing of business skills was presented – optimistically – as a good thing.

However, the White House refused to respond to a question on Herbert Hoover who was the last President to claim business skills as the center of his ability to improve the country. Unfortunately, a legacy of searing literature on economic despair and feel good musicals to distract from unemployment and breadlines is not the stuff of memorable presidencies.

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I hope I have a good lawyer….

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Pig Trump thought he should just talk to Nightmare Mueller. Most of the animals had believed him when he had said he would drain the Swamp. And even though Nightmare Mueller was not a Facebook friend of Pig Trump, surely he would would believe him?

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The E team…

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The Swamp Farm Trumpets 🎺 are getting perilously close to that most desperate of excuses for a sporting team’s failure – “this is a rebuilding year”.

Bullock Tillerson has been sacked by Coach Trump. Like a number of the other players including Goldmine Cohn and Mnuchin the Munchkin, Bullock Tillerson had been a star in the Corporate League.

However, he failed to handle the different playing style of the Farm League.

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The C team…

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There had been an added urgency to Spring training for the Swamp Farm Trumpets baseball ⚾️ team at the Mar-a-Lago Paddock.

Pig Trump had agreed an extra, unplanned game against Bad Haircut Farm.

The Bad Haircut Farm Missiles had never been part of a regular competition. They had had a pretty strong team in the early 1950s, but most games since then had been intramurals with Dumpling Farm.

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Thump, thump from the cellar…

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There was tarnish on the name plates on the empty stalls once used by Flaky Flynn, Owl Priebus, Wombat Spicer, Snake Bannon and Golden Pony Hicks.

Although Leatherneck Kelly’s stall was still occupied, the lack of any capable stable hands meant that his once burnished shell was now grubby from the floors of the White Barn.

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Ski poles at the ready

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And while the gun training may take some time – initially protection will involve Jared and Ivanka bringing their ski poles to work, Gary Cohn will throw the heavy sack containing his last bonus from Goldman Sachs at any intruder and Kellyanne Conway will totally confuse them by explaining administration policy.

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